Fame

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. — read the full passage →

It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.

Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work.”

Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. — read the full passage →

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me; — read the full passage →

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — read the full passage →

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’ — read the full passage →

The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. — read the full passage →

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. — read the full passage →

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me. — read the full passage →

They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

Your renown went out among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you, says the Lord Yahweh.

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, — read the full passage →

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. — read the full passage →

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

“But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny; — read the full passage →

A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool. — read the full passage →

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men. — read the full passage →

“Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts; — read the full passage →

But Jesus summoned them, and said, “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. — read the full passage →

“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man’s, will he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh. — read the full passage →

So Yahweh was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.

But I have this against you, that you tolerate yourwoman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one. — read the full passage →

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not. — read the full passage →

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things. — read the full passage →

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires. — read the full passage →

Differing weights and differing measures, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh, my soul. — read the full passage →

Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh’s name! Praise him, you servants of Yahweh, — read the full passage →

Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil. — read the full passage →

Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good? — read the full passage →

Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran. — read the full passage →

They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,

When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them. — read the full passage →

Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. — read the full passage →

lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal. — read the full passage →

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come! — read the full passage →

He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions. — read the full passage →

Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come. — read the full passage →

But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities. — read the full passage →

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.” — read the full passage →

Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word, — read the full passage →

The report of him went out immediately everywhere into all the region of Galilee and its surrounding area.

But they went out and spread abroad his fame in all that land.

The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.

“I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the islands afar off, who have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; — read the full passage →

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. — read the full passage →

The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats. — read the full passage →

For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater.

David said, “Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries. I will therefore make preparation for it.” So David prepared abundantly before his death.

The fame of David went out into all lands; and Yahweh brought the fear of him on all nations.

When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to prove him with hard questions.

For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations all around.

Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. Yahweh shall rule over you.” — read the full passage →

Now if you killed this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,

But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together. — read the full passage →

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it. — read the full passage →

Through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and he shall destroy many in their security. He shall also stand up against the prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand. — read the full passage →

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh. — read the full passage →